YouTube chat logs reveal employees aimed for "viewer addiction" and scrapped

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> YouTube chat logs reveal employees aimed for “viewer addiction” and scrapped safety tools

I guess all these monopolistic companies are the same after all.

The YouTube algorithm has made it largely useless to me recently. I’m served up constant clickbait videos with fake reaction thumbnails. I know there’s a lot more under the hood but it’s a slog to find anything but that. Add in the insane amount of commercials and I have a product I use a lot less than in the past.

As a side note: I find the recent trend in low quality commercials, made to look like reviews from everyday people, very annoying. It’s a new level of dishonesty that reeks of desperation.